One of the physical therapy students told me she gave Advice
for my Granddaughter to her 13-year-old daughter, because she knew she would
read it. But she didn't think her 12-year-old son would read Advice for boys,
so she is reading a section every night at the dinner table. Cool about the
reading, and more cool that she is one of those parents who believe the family
should eat dinner together, with no electronic devices present. They are in
short supply.

Advice for Boys is
a short, east-to-read guide that will light the path in a chaotic world for
that tween or teen boy in your heart. It is a companion book to the author’s Advice
for my Granddaughter for girls. All author’s royalties are donated to the
Pulmonary

General News and Comment

Actor Robin Williams
Found Dead in Possible Suicide.

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/robin-williams-found-dead-in-possible-suicide-1201280386/
Excerpt:He was 63.The cause of death is believed to be suicide via
asphyxiation, according to the coroner’s office in Tiburon, Calif.
He was found in his home. His publicist Mara Buxbaum said the actor had been
battling depression of late. (I liked Williams' humor, but not his politics.
Another example of why the wealthy elites, especially Godless liberals, are not
happy. They feel empty and bored, and seek to dispel that with sensations in
place of meaning: drugs, sex, alcohol and sometimes the excitement of violence.
All of which leaves them more empty and bored. The only path to happiness is to
care about something greater than yourself--church, community, country, charity
or cause or an organization such as the USMC. ~Bob

Worth Reading:
Compassionate Conservatives and Cruel Leftists. By Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/compassionate-conservatives-and-cruel-leftists/
Excerpt:Compassion is useful when it’s pragmatic. Idealistic compassion that is
global, rather than interpersonal, is the symptom of a manipulative
personality. Pragmatic people can seem cruel because they have little faith in
organizational compassion. They distrust systems. Instead they help people.

Excerpt: A 54-year-old employee of DHS is now under arrest
in a Sacramento County Jail after he was busted a sting that involved a
Craigslist ad he placed in an attempt to engage in sex with a mother and her
underage daughter.

Interesting: Sweden announces that races don't
exist. By Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/sweden-announces-that-races-dont-exist/
Excerpt: No, this is not The Onion. Though with Swedish politics it’s often
hard to tell. Ullenhag is also a member of a somewhat conservative party. In
theory it’s not a bad idea. At least it’s a less bad idea than the current
policy of seeing racism everywhere. Of course people who get grants to fight
racism are not happy. (Race is a pretty amorphous concept. Obama is as much
white as black, but it is profitable to him to identify as black. The majority
of the 3000 black slave owners in New
Orleans in 1860 were half black. But the racism of the
South identified as 'black" anyone with any black blood at all. Just as
Sen. Liz Warren got benefits from being a native American on a family story
that she was 1/32nd Cherokee. [According to my grandmother, I'm 1/16th Cree, so
having despite no proof--like Warren--I
want minority benefits!] In my view, race means nothing, culture and character
are everything. ~Bob)

Excerpt: An overwhelming majority of adults still believe
the United States
is losing the war on drugs, but they are more divided over whether money is the
answer. Just three percent (3%) of American Adults believe the United States
is winning the war on drugs, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national
telephone survey. Eighty-four percent (84%) disagree. (With the Obama
administration arming the cartels, the 3% are, well, smoking something...~Bob)

Excerpt: The Obama presidency lies in shambles. Few
presidents have promised more, delivered less, or done more damage. The economy
limps along anemically — the weakest recovery from a recession in history.
Rising taxes, suffocating regulation, soaring domestic spending, and
voraciously expanding entitlements have deep-chilled growth, innovation, and
the creation of new jobs. The administration has tenaciously impeded the
exploitation of huge energy reserves that could transform the U.S. into an
energy exporter.

Excerpt: Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie (D) was overwhelmingly
defeated Saturday by his primary challenger, state Sen. David Ige. He is the
first sitting governor in the history of the state to fall in a primary. With
nearly all votes tallied Sunday, Ige led Abercrombie 66 percent to 31 percent.

Excerpt: In an election-year stunner, Gov. Neil Abercrombie
of Hawaii was
ousted from office Saturday by state Sen. David Ige, who crushed the
incumbent in the Democratic primary, despite a last-minute push for Abercrombie
by President Barack Obama. Although he has been outspent by about 10 to 1, Ige
defeated Abercrombie by a margin of 67 to 32 percent....Just last month, Obama
urged residents of the Aloha State to vote for Abercrombie, using the Hawaiian
term for family in a radio commercial, saying Abercrombie is “like ohana to
me.”

Excerpt: How many of you caught the news of the Russian
nuclear capable bombers flying just 50 miles off the California coast on Monday last? Our
Air Force sent up two F-22's to monitor their activity. Two of them headed back
toward Russia
and two of them swung north and skirted Alaskan airspace. Vladimir Putin is
just teasing Barry, just like he mocks him every week. How many saw the laser
image of Obama lusting after a banana projected on the side of a Moscow office building? Putin
has no respect for Barry, with good reason. He's pretty well had his way in the
Ukraine,
having learned that Barry's "red lines" are just laughable...not to
be taken seriously.

UK: Canon Andrew White: 'You have got to be
prepared to die for your faith.' By Archbishop Cranmerhttp://www.archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2014/08/canon-andrew-white-you-have-got-to-be.html
Excerpt: Why were the Christians not deemed worthy of the same level of concern
and support? Why is the Prime Minister less burdened by their right to freedom
and dignity? Are Christians worth less than members of a so-called 'sect'?
Baroness Warsi observed back in January that the persecution of Christians has
become a "global crisis". But she did nothing. She said the UK
Government was committed to standing up to such persecution. But she did
nothing. She said majority Muslim nations have a duty to defend Christian
minorities. But she did nothing. She assured us that she had elevated religious
discrimination against Christians and other minorities to a key priority in the
Government’s human rights work. But she did nothing.

The Men's Rights
Movement and the Women Who Love It. Mother Joneshttp://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/mens-rights-movement-women-who-love-it
Excerpt: When many people think of the men's rights movement, the image that
springs to mind is lonely men lurking in chat rooms and railing against women.
But in recent years, a group of brash, witty female activists has taken up the
cause. And some of them are emerging as the movement's leading voices. It may
seem counterintuitive that women would be helping drive the conversation about
a movement that's fighting anti-male discrimination and campaigning fiercely
against feminism.

Remember when Obama
promised that he would not take vacations if elected President?

Excerpt: Weasel Zippers has revived
an old video of Barack Obama promising not to take vacations if he were elected
president. ... “The bargain that any president strikes with is, you give me
this office and in turn my, fears, doubts, insecurities, foibles, need for
sleep, family life, vacations, leisure is gone,” Obama said. “I am giving
myself to you.” (This video is just too, too good to miss. It's not even a
minute long, but what he says, so very clearly, will just crack you up. Beautiful
thought, beautifully expressed, absolutely inspiring. Not remotely related to
the reality of his presidency, but hey, it's a great thought. --Del. Every Obama promise
came with an expiraton date--they were just lies to win votes. ~Bob.)

A children's problem
to test the aptitude of politicians. By Oleg Atbashianhttp://www.americanthinker.com/2014/08/a_childrens_problem_to_test_the_aptitude_of_politicians.html
Excerpt: There is a reason why the question below, from a Hong
Kong elementary school test, is making the rounds on the internet.
Most adults can't solve it – not for want of math skills, but because most of
them have lost the child's ability of unconventional thinking. Instead, they
have acquired the debilitating unwillingness to try a different perspective.

U.S. Marijuana Legalization Already Weakening
Mexican Cartels, Violence Expected To Decline. By Cathy Reisenwitzhttp://townhall.com/columnists/cathyreisenwitz/2014/08/11/us-marijuana-legalization-already-weakening-mexican-cartels-violence-expected-to-decline-n1876088
Excerpt: Latin America is the largest global
exporter of cannabis and cocaine. In 2011 the DOJ’s now-shuttered NationalDrugIntelligenceCenter
found that the top cartels controlled the majority of drug trade in marijuana,
heroin, and methamphetamine in over 1,000 US cities. Research into black
markets shows that producer countries experience more violence than consumer
countries. In essence, the global war on drugs is a UN scheme to shrug drug war
costs off rich countries’ shoulders and onto poor Latin American countries,
with horrifyingly violent results.

The research program, occurring in Sierra Leone, the Republic of Guinea, and Liberia—said to be the epicenter of
the 2014 Ebola outbreak—has the announced purpose, among others, of detecting
the future use of fever-viruses as bioweapons. Is this purely defensive
research? Or as we have seen in the past, is this research being covertly used
to develop offensive bioweapons?

Interestingly enough, the nurse who treated Sawyer 2 weeks
ago, also contracted the disease, and now she has lost her life. ... We
understand that there's an experimental drug, but it is not certain how
effective it is, and if there's any serious side effects. Doctors should think
twice before mass producing this drug, because it could turn out to be the door
to something even worse than Ebola.

Excerpt: “All children in theUnited Statesare entitled to equal access to a
public elementary and secondary education, regardless of their or their
parents' actual or perceived national origin, citizenship, or immigration
status,” the fact sheet explains. “This includes recently arrived unaccompanied
children, who are in immigration proceedings while residing in local
communities with a parent, family member, or other appropriate adult sponsor.” Since October more than 62,900 unaccompanied minors have
been detained illegally entering theU.S., the vast majority of who have been fromCentral America.

Ecerpt: 'The primary responsibility of the
commander-in-chief is to protect the homeland,' said O'Keefe. 'With a single
trip to the border, we proved that President Obama and Congress have failed
miserably and are misleadingAmerica.'
A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol official told MailOnline that his agency's
forces are stretched to the breaking point.

Excerpt: The windswept Scottish highlands are increasingly
becoming home to thousands of wind turbines due to government policies seeking
to boost green energy production and fight global warming.... “It is bonkers
that infrasound low frequency noise monitoring is not included in any environmental
assessments.... Vivers also noted that there has been an “acknowledged and
unexplained increase of insomnia, dizziness and headaches” in the town of Dundee, which is where
two wind turbines been in service since 2006. (Glad I visited 20 years ago....Barb)

California Planning to Regulate Ground Water. By
William Bigelowhttp://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/08/10/CA-Planning-to-Regulate-Groundwater
Excerpt: Lester Snow, director of the nonprofit group California Water
Foundation and a former state secretary for natural resources, explained,
"What we're doing with groundwater is an equivalent to deficit spending.
Something bad is going to happen [in the long run.]" The legislation
proposed flies in the face of the traditional perspective of groundwater
belonging to the property owner. However, there have already been changes to
the prevailing attitude; some water districts are supervising their underground
sources; some others were forced to do so by court proceedings.

Religion of Peace News

Worth Reading--Very Interesting: Papal envoy calls for ARMED RESPONSE to defend
Christians from Genocidehttp://www.catholic.org/news/international/middle_east/story.php?id=56510
ExcerptReferring to military
action, Archbishop Giorgio Lingua, the Vatican's nuncio to Iraq, told Vatican
Radio, "This is something that had to be done, otherwise [the Islamic
State] could not be stopped." Such a call is virtually unprecedented for a
papal envoy in modern times, but our age is an extraordinary one and the
Islamic State has no interest in a bargaining table. Instead, the Islamic State
is bent on genocide and barbarism, ruthlessly exterminating anyone who opposes
them. ("And the Pope has cast his arms abroad for agony and loss, And
called the kings of Christendom for swords about the Cross." Lepanto by G. K. Chesterton.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177439.
But Barack Obama is hardly Don John of Austria. ~Bob)

Worth Reading:
The Un-Midas Touch. By Victor Davis Hansonhttp://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/the-un-midas-touch/
Excerpt: Everything that Barack Obama touches seems to turn to dross. Think of
it for a minute. He inherited a quiet Iraq (no American combat deaths at
all in December 2009). Joe Biden bragged of the calm that it would be the
administration’s “greatest achievement.” But by pulling out all U.S. peacekeepers — mostly for a 2012 reelection
talking point — Obama ensured an ISIS
wasteland. He put his promised eye on Afghanistan at last, and we have
lost more soldiers there than during the Bush administration and a Taliban
victory seems likely after more than a decade of lost American blood and
treasure. The message seems to be that it is better for Obama to have his eye
off something than on it.

The Country of the
Blind: Perhaps it isn’t fair to lay the blame wholly at Obama's feet.By Andrew
Klavan.http://pjmedia.com/andrewklavan/2014/08/10/the-country-of-the-blind/?singlepage=true
Excerpt: Fifty-six percent of American women voted for Obama’s reelection, for
instance. And today, because of the president’s perfidious surrender of W’s
Iraq victory (which closed down the “rape rooms” of Saddam Hussein) women in
Iraq are being sold into slavery — sold into slavery — by the Islamist monsters
who have taken up the power vacuum Obama left behind. But don’t worry, Iraqi
slave ladies. American women have your back and are, even as you are being
sold, taking to the streets to protest the fact that Hobby Lobby won’t pick up
the check for some of their birth control.

Obama: "Not My
Decision" to Pull Troops Out of Iraq". By Joel Gehrkehttp://www.nationalreview.com/corner/385069/obama-not-my-decision-pull-troops-out-iraq-joel-gehrke
Excerpt: We got no guidance from the White House,” Jeffrey told me. “We didn’t
know where the President was. Maliki kept saying, ‘I don’t know what I have to
sell.’ ” At one meeting, Maliki said that he was willing to sign an executive
agreement granting the soldiers permission to stay, if he didn’t have to
persuade the parliament to accept immunity. The Obama Administration quickly
rejected the idea. “The American attitude was: Let’s get out of here as quickly
as possible,” Sami al-Askari, the Iraqi member of parliament, said.

Excerpt: President
Obama says he doesn’t take lightly the decision to launch air attacks
on Iraq —
but you couldn’t tell that from the way he launched the attack.

Obama may or may not be making the correct decision in
attacking theIslamic State of Iraq and Syria — the well-armed
Islamist terrorist group now attempting a horrifying takeover of Iraq — and so
it would have been proper for Obama to raise the question for debate in the
past few months while ISIS spread across Iraq. Also, the legality of attacking
without congressional authorization is murky. (This will work out as well as
his war in Libya.
There are clearly advantages to being President. I wish I could call in air
strikes on evil people even from vacation. ~Bob)

Excerpt: U.S.
spy agencies have begun to see groups of fighters abandoning al-Qaeda
affiliates in Yemen and
Africa to join the rival Islamist organization that has seized territory in Iraq and Syria
and been targeted
in American airstrikes, U.S.
officials said.

OBAMA: BAD INTELLIGENCE BEHIND ISIS
UNDERESTIMATION

Excerpt: Saturday from the White House South Lawn, President
Barack Obama blamed "intelligence estimates" for not anticipating the
speed in which ISIS would capture large sections of Iraq. (Gee, that's what Bush said
about WNDs in Iraq,
and the Democrats all accepted that...~Bob)

New York Times: New
Media Drove Obama To Action In Iraq.
By John Noltehttp://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2014/08/09/nyt-admits-new-media-forced-obama-toact-in-iraq
Excerpt: The New York Times doesn't come right out and say it was New Media
that finally drove Obama to admit he withdrew from Iraq prematurely by ordering
airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq. But when the New York Times admits that the
specter of Benghazi
is what drove Obama to action, that is exactly what the Times is saying:

ISIS: Killing Gets Then Off. By Ace of Spadeshttp://minx.cc:1080/?post=351103
Excerpt: The more ISIS fighters who die now, the less terrorism we'll have in
the next twenty years.These people are not going back to shepherding. They like
killing. Killing gets them off, and I do mean that in the sexual sense. No one
who does this much bloody slaughter is doing so for purely political reasons.

France ignores Obama,
will supply weapons to the Kurds. By Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/france-ignores-obama-will-supply-weapons-to-kurds/
Excerpt: The subtext here isn’t very subtle. France will work through the EU
rather than NATO. There’s also a dig at American unilateralism, this time under
the great multilateralist Obama. Considering that France casually invades countries
that the UN Security Council has never even heard of, this sudden
multilateralism is meaningless hypocrisy.

Excerpt: The U.S.
government has begun to funnel weapons directly to Kurdish forces fighting
Islamist militants in northern Iraq,
U.S.
officials said Monday, deepening
American involvement in a conflict that the Obama administration had
long sought to avoid. The decision to arm the Kurds, via a covert channel
established by the CIA, was made even as Pentagon officials acknowledged that
recent U.S.
airstrikes against the militants were having only a temporary deterrent effect
and were unlikely to sap their will to fight.

Excerpt: Supporters of the genocidal Islamic State, formerly
ISIS, violently attacked Kurdish Yazidis living in the German state of North
Rhine-Westphalia, according to Soeren Kernof the Gatestone Institute. German
police say Muslim extremists stormed a restaurant in the German town of Herford on
Thursday afternoon. (No different than Hamas supporters. ~Bob)

Hashtag Wars. By
Charles C. W. Cookehttp://www.nationalreview.com/article/385117/hashtag-wars-charles-c-w-cooke
Excerpt: To cruise the various hashtags that ISIS and its advocates frequent is
to be appalled. There, in photograph after photograph and video after video,
men, women, and children are herded into ditches and shot dead. Decapitated and
impaled heads are ten a penny. One especially harrowing video shows a man
screaming as his head is slowly severed. If the intention is to scare potential
victims in the Middle East, it will
undoubtedly be working. But these things have also found eyes in the Pentagon,
in American newsrooms, and — crucially — among voters across the United States.
One wonders if, by broadcasting its misdeeds so explicitly, ISIS
is ultimately signing its own death warrant.

Excerpt: The counterinsurgency expert likened this kind of
thinking to how Neville Chamberlain thought about the rise of Adolf Hitler
in 1938. Moreover, the asymmetrical warfare specialist was appalled by
the Deputy National Security Advisor's comment this week that
the “Islamic State” is not a threat to the United States. By making that
claim, Gorka said it was cause for firing and labeled it “national security
malpractice.”

Important: Former NATO Head: U.S. Advisers
Needed to Fight With Iraqis, Kurds

Excerpt: Retired Adm. James Stavridis, the former head of
NATO, said the U.S.
should send troops to fight on the ground with Kurds and Iraqis against the
terrorist group ISIL, the Military Times reports. While the military
says about 250 U.S. troops are “assessing” the capabilities of the Iraqis and
Kurds and sharing intelligence with them, Stavridis said “many more” Special
Forces should be deployed to help: (OK, now the real soldiers will tell the
President and everyone else, through the media, what really needs to be done if
we are to make a difference in Iraq. And we really need to make a difference, ISIS needs to be stopped and smashed, and the Kurds in
particular need our full support. This is IMPORTANT stuff, really important,
what happens in Iraq
in the next few months will have huge effects for a very long time. --Del. I
dunno. Sending troops to fight and die in a war the country and especially the
president does not have the grit to win seems like a tough call. ~Bob)

If Genocide Won't
Unite Iraq,
Nothing Will. By Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/if-genocide-wont-unite-iraq-nothing-will/
Excerpt: Middle Eastern countries with mixed ethnic and religious populations
tend to be unstable and war-torn. Israel
and Lebanon are two of the
obvious examples, but Iraq
and Syria
have long histories of conflict predating the current civil wars. Whatever
stability they had came from dictators and bloodshed. In Israel, Sunni
Muslims can’t get along with the native Jewish population they had once
conquered, but which had managed to achieve political independence. In Lebanon, Sunni
and Shiite Muslims can’t get along with each other or the pre-existing
Christian population despite multiple agreements.

Muslims and Morlocks:
The Tunnels. By Glenn Fairmanhttp://www.americanthinker.com/2014/08/muslims_and_morlocks.html
Excerpt: As of now, the discovery of over 31 painstakingly created tunnels,
extending as far as 3 km into Israel, has brought to light the equivalent of a
Hamas “9/11 style” plot where it was hoped that 10,000 deaths and/or
kidnappings were to occur on Israel’s high holy day of redemption: Rosh
Hashanah. Excavated and fortified by concrete and steel over a period of years
by a regime screaming that the Israeli embargo was choking off the very life of
Palestinians, each tunnel appears to have been paired and large enough to
convey wheeled vehicles such as militarized motorcycles to assist in their
brazen onslaught.

Good Point: Worse than Nazis: Even the Nazis built
bomb shelters to protect their own people. By Gene Schwimmerhttp://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/08/worse_than_nazis.html
Excerpt: Comparing the two photos, it would seem obvious that the tunnels Hamas
built to attack Jews in Israel could serve just as well to protect Arabs in
Gaza – not just in their solid construction, but in their proximity to Gaza’s
civilian population. Recall that these tunnels constitute a vast network,
directly beneath the streets of Gaza,
often with entrances located within Gazan dwellings. So why, given the
proximity of these tunnels, and the generous advance warnings given by the
Israeli military – far more generous than the 15-second warnings Israelis get
to seek shelter from Hamas’s rockets – does Hamas not allow their civilian
population to use these tunnels as bomb shelters?

Excerpt: A Catholic Archbishop ministering to Gaza’s minute Christian minority says Hamas terrorists
forced him to allow them to use his church to fire rockets at Israel during
the four week-long Operation Protective Edge. “Islam is the rule of this place
and whatever Hamas says we must obey or face consequences,” Archbishop Alexios
told The Christian Broadcasting Network.

Short Memories: Once
Upon a Time Killing Civilians was Kosher for the Brits. By Jeff Lipkeshttp://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/08/short_memories_once_upon_a_time_killing_civilians_was_kosher_for_the_brits.html
Excerpt: By the end of spring 1941 the Battle of Britain was over. English
cities were no longer menaced by German bombers. But rockets were being fired
at the U.K. from bases in
northern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, first the V1
“buzzbombs” and then the V2s. The British were naturally not content with
hitting the missile sites, difficult in any case, as the missiles were moved
repeatedly. After a brief and largely unsuccessful campaign of strategic
bombing, where military facilities and munitions plants were targeted, the
British switched to area bombing—incinerating civilians.

Why Egypt Should Keep the Rafah
Crossing Closed. By Gamal Abuel Hassanhttp://m.weeklystandard.com/blogs/why-egypt-should-keep-rafah-crossing-closed_802193.html
Excerpt: One aspect of the three-week-long conflict in Gaza between Israel and
Hamas that has gotten curiously little play is the Egyptian angle, especially
the Rafah Crossing, controlled by Egypt. The conflict was in a sense largely
about this issue. Hamas’s war was intended to create a situation whereby the
new regime in Cairo, headed by former general
and now president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, was to find itself increasingly
embarrassed and forced by public opinion, both in Egypt and the wider region, to
re-open Rafah as a commercial terminal. Hamas took its strategy right out of
the Arab regime playbook. For the last six decades, Arab leaders have
frequently attacked Israel
to achieve political goals that are completely unrelated to the Arab-Israeli
conflict.

UK, France, Germany
Endorse Hamas Demands on Gaza.
By Daniel Greenfieldhttp://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/uk-germany-france-endorse-hamas-demands-on-gaza/
Excerpt: It’s official. Hamas is the new PLO. And three major European
governments now endorse its demands for free weapons smuggling into Gaza. COMMENT: JRKipling
said:...What France should do and what it is capable of doing are two different
things. France is now 20% muslim and all those muslims got into France by nice,
fair minded tolerant non judgmental people like yourself that 50 years ago said
we should never judge muslims for being muslims, but rather, as you always say,
by their individual qualities as people.

The Spy Who Told Me:
Why Israel vs. Palestine Is Different
This Time Around. By John McLaughlinhttp://www.ozy.com/c-notes/the-spy-who-told-me-israel-palestine-wont-quit/33037.article
Excerpt: Lastly, although U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is pouring huge
energy into the search for a solution, the simple truth is that American
influence in the region is diminished. What’s the cause of this saltier
relationship between the Arab world and America? Take Egypt and Syria to start. Unfairly or not,
most Middle Easterners point to the rapidity with which the U.S. turned against longtime ally Hosni Mubarak
during the Egyptian revolution in 2011 and the American decision not to use
military strikes against Syria
— despite the fact that President Obama had declared that he would. In short, the
Middle East doubts America’s
commitments.

Indefatigable
Israeli: Netanyahu at the ramparts. By Quin Hillyerhttp://www.nationalreview.com/article/385105/indefatigable-israeli-quin-hillyer
Excerpt: While others may not praise Netanyahu quite so exuberantly, the basic
tenor of American reactions to his name, everywhere I go, is the same: “I
really wish we had a leader like that.” Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu has plenty of
critics, both in his own country and among some hardliners and some doves in
American Jewry, and he has been no paragon of virtue in his private life. But
there is no doubt that the man is a superb communicator, a canny politician and
diplomat, and a remarkably tough, persistent, able leader.

Defending Jerusalem in Europe. By
Stephen Brownhttp://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/stephenbrown/defending-jerusalem-in-europe/
Excerpt : "...in Germany
alone, several hundred former, Israeli soldiers are charged with the protection
of Jewish institutions,” Beni Tal, an Israeli ex-military security agent
working in Europe told the German newspaper
Die Welt. “In all of Europe, we’re talking
thousands.” Well aware of history, German Jewish associations know the first
major step in any planned liquidation of Europe’s Jewish communities,
especially of their own, is the destruction of their synagogues. This is what
occurred in Germany
in November, 1938, and later came to be called ‘Kristallnacht’ (Crystal Night).

The show should go on
in London. By
Michael Curtishttp://www.americanthinker.com/2014/08/the_show_should_go_on_in_london.html Excerpt:In
a popular Sherlock Holmes story, the solution to the mystery hinges on the
curious incident of the dog that did not bark. No mystery hinges on the reality
that Europe did not bark about the committing of crimes against humanity and
war crimes by Hamas, the terrorist group that occupies and controls Gaza in using civilians,
especially children, as human shields to prevent any Israeli response to
attacks on its civilians. Instead, noises quite different in character have
been voiced in the hostile words and actions of citizens in various European
countries. (I lived in Britain
for 30 years. They are just as nasty about Americans as they are about Jews.
--Kate. Not in Bonny Scotland!
~Bob)

Rabbi Fatally Shot
While Walking To North Miami Beach
Synagogue. By Kate O'Harehttp://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/08/09/Breaking-Rabbi-Fatally-Shot-While-Walking-to-North-Miami-Beach-Temple
Excerpt:The police said the suspects -- for whom they don't yet have a good
description -- fled, one on a bicycle and one on foot. Law enforcement is also
holding off labeling the attack a hate crime. But, as reported by the Miami CBS
affiliate in a story from July 28, about two blocks from where Rabbi Raksin was
shot, the Congregation Torah Ve'emunah, at 1000 N.E. 175th Street, was vandalized.
Around 1 a.m. that morning, a member of a community watch group found
swastikas and the word "Hamas" spray-painted on the pillars of the
synagogue.

Listen and be concerned…….. Someday the prospect of a Muslim
world becomes more real! Video is a report on Muslim radicals imposing Shari
Law and takeover of Belgium…..
the heart of Western Europe. Note to think
about: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)): the
organization constitutes a system of collective defensewhereby its member states
agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. NATO’s
middle east involvements: AfghanistanWar, Iraq,
Gulf of Aden anti-piracy and Libya
intervention. NATO's headquarters are in Brussels,
Belgium…..will the radical
Muslims kick NATO out of Brussels?
--David. The EU is headquartered there a well. ~Bob.

Excerpt: A cleric read the verdict before the truck came and
dumped a large pile of stones near the municipal garden. Jihadi fighters then
brought in the woman, clad head to toe in black, and put her in a small hole in
the ground. When residents gathered, the fighters told them to carry out the
sentence: Stoning to death for the alleged adulteress. None in the crowd
stepped forward, said a witness to the event in a northern Syrian city. So the
jihadi fighters, mostly foreign extremists, did it themselves, pelting Faddah
Ahmad with stones until her body was dragged away. (Well, as liberals say, all
cultures are equally valid--who are we to judge?> ~Bob)

None dare call it
evil--except Archbishop of Canterbury
Justin Welby. By Archbishop Cranmerhttp://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2014/08/none-dare-call-it-evil-except.html
Excerpt: It is good that we have an Archbishop of Canterbury who discerns
manifestations of evil not only in the principalities and powers of the
spiritual realm, but also in the muddled and murky politics of the temporal.
His nature is averse to the discordant skirmishes of religio-political
polarisation: his heart inclines toward peace and reconciliation. But he knows
the unmistakable signs of the times, and can read the moods and movements that
transcend the materialistic, corrupt, decadent and immoral obsessions of the
age. He won't call it a "clash of civilisations", but we have in
Justin Welby an Archbishop who knows that the greatest threat to the
Judæo-Christian ethic is the Islamic revival movement which we call Islamism,
Jihadism, extremist or political Islam.

Hiroshima's Lessons for the War on Terror. By Daniel
Greenfieldhttp://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2014/08/hiroshimas-lessons-for-war-on-terror.html
Excerpt: More people died in the Battle of Okinawa on both sides than in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
... It does not take much to imagine what trying to capture Honshu
would have looked like. Take the worst horrors of Vietnam and keep multiplying until
you run out of imagination. If you run low, remember that at Okinawa
the military was handing out grenades to civilians and its home defense plans
involved encouraging the civilian population to commit suicide attacks. The United States
military did not understand the fanatical mindset of its enemies, but it did
understand that they had to be fought with equal ruthlessness.